Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/14hb7h3/comment/jpcby48/
Correction: the pop up for Lemmy should start to appear sometime this weekend
Also apparently confirmed in discord that kbin support will be coming:
I hope instances are preparing for the 2nd wave of Reddit migrants on June 30th
I think many of them have probably been gearing up for it.
I wonder which instances are hosted in the cloud and have auto-scaling setup, those will prob handle the load a lot better
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We need more instances, not bigger ones. Sync should try to promote smaller ones, or even host their own.
Kbin support wow :0
Just take my money already 😩
No confirmation that it will be there at launch but great news that he’s committed to supporting it!
It almost certainly won’t be at launch, as the kbin API is not ready yet. Artemis, another upcoming kbin/Lemmy double-act app, is currently relying on a web scraper and self-hosted shim API to access kbin content, with the goal being to switch to the real API once it’s available.
Basically, it’s a lot of extra work to support kbin right now, but in the future it should be about as easy as Lemmy. I’ll be interested to see if any other Lemmy apps pick up kbin support as a result, but even just a couple is more than I expected so soon.
Liftoff (formerly Lemmynade) will be supporting kbin in the future as well
I will buy all the apps!
Really wish Christian would bring Apollo to Lemmy in the same fashion
In one interview he said he was exhausted from this ordeal and that he just doesn’t have the energy to rewrite Apollo to Lemmy.
And he deserves a long vacation after all the shit that has happened to him. I’d even understand if he’d go low profile from this point on.
The character assassination Steve Huffman unleashed on him would make a lesser man just want to disappear (online).
Maybe he’s not saying anything but then will drop a fully polished app out of nowhere like that Beyoncé album
My god I wish. But I will say, congrats to Mlem and to Memmy, for pushing out two apollo-esque apps in the spirit of it all
Working on Mlem has been super fun and educational!
FOSS ftw
That would be amazing.
At least we’ll have Memmy and Artemis
Memmy is already shaping up as a great client. Already very full featured. And with how fast the dev is updating, it’ll be awesome.
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Here is a list of Apps coming to Lemmy:
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/71764
Plenty for iOS to chose from, Christian’s legacy continues. Memmy and Mlem both feel pretty close to Apollo - and are both directly inspired by it.
These apps are in early beta. They have constant updates (daily for Memmy and weekly for Mlem), so you can kind of see them being built in real time. If you’re patient with the developers, you’ll get that Apollo experience very soon. It’s like 80% of the way there.
Liftoff is pretty cool too, though it’s a different design approach.
(I’m using Memmy now, actually.)
Great summary!
Memmy mafia represent!
If he does bring over an apollo like app he should definitely call it apolloverse.
Ljdawson is a fucking legend
This is fantastic. Sync was the best and I tried multiple apps but kept coming back.
I always used baconreader because I’m after really compact and full function with options. I don’t want giant image cards because I’m ten million years old (I’m not, I just like the outcome of having to design around simplicity and efficiency).
However, an actual app? Made by a popular, experienced, and successful app dev? I will 100% pay for and use that even though it’s not my preferred design philosophy.
Lemmy and kbin are… alright as they are, but chrome is such a pos for multitasking and I would really love some clarity and consistency to the ux design across different instances and more and better options.
What I really want, ideally, is baconreader to make a universal fediverse app - but the likelihood of anybody making a universal app and that’s good is very low, let alone my favorite 3rd party reddit app dev that’s already said they don’t plan on it.
Try Jerboa if you’re on Android. It’s made by the Lemmy devs and has had an explosion of activity and growth since Rexxit.
Jerboa is ok. It certainly isn’t perfect but it’s getting there. I’ve always liked baconreader too.
BaconReader was my favourite as well. I hope the developer uses the opportunity come the end of the month to push users to the fediverse.
Jerboa is fine, but it’s not as good as some of the Reddit apps.
Anyway it’s great to see developers of Reddit apps releasing apps for Lemmy, because UI wise it’s so close that they will probably be able to reuse most of their code. We’ll get all the maturity of these apps on day 1 of the release, and competition between the apps will be healthy.
Liftoff is look good too
There’s usually options for “list” view instead of “card” view.
I’m not super familiar with Bacon reader nowadays, but Sync has a list view and a compact view that cram quite a few posts onto the screen. Hopefully its comparable.
Dude you can customize sync to make it super compact
Sync was completely customizable. You wouldn’t believe how compact I made mine.
You can give Summit a try as well (me is the developer). It’s kind of compact, but I’m willing to add options to tighten it up even more for you if that’s what users want.
You can configure sync to use a compact layout that reminds me of baconreader as well, it’s what I’ve always configured sync to do, because it’s what I like, the nice thing about sync is that it’s really configurable it can be almost what you want it to be :)
I couldn’t use anything else after Relay. But I will gladly take Sync over the mobile site.
SyncForLemmy sub is unavailable outside the app!
Yeah, that made me chuckle. Reddit is really trying to make sure I move on completely.
I like how they imply viewing it in the app suddenly makes the subreddit safe. They use the same trick in NSFW subreddits to get people to install thier app.
Lemmy is cool and all so far… Hopefully the other communities make it over here.
Be the change you want to see and create it. People will come
If you want a particular community you can create it!
Create them! We won’t judge you!
…don’t judge mine
I created a sublemmy for PhotoshopRequest. Please spread the word as it’ll help. Thanks! You may check it here
I think we should stick to calling them communities. That is an apt description of what they are and I don’t see the point in trying desperately to replicate everything reddit.
I agree
Yeah plus it makes sense given the /c/
If anyone wants to support him he has a patreon.
Fuck yeah. I’m a grown ass man, and I feel like a child at Christmas Eve.
Honestly this feels like reddit in the old days hahaha
Will be buying the pro version as soon as I can!!!
I might buy pro on all 3: Mlem Memmy and Artemis, just to help skyrocket them on the App Store. Fuck spez
I’ll probably do the same. I bought Pro for Sync, Slide, & Relay just to support the Dev’s when they released their reddit apps. I think they were only about $1 each for pro back then. I ended up buying Sync Ultra for like $30 after the Slide Dev abandoned his app and I went back to Sync. It was an awesome app and I wanted to support him. I’ve got $18 in Google Opinion Rewards burning a hole in my pocket that I’m saving to use for Lemmy apps when they release their Pro versions.
Stupid question, but what’s the difference between kbin and lemmy? I thought kbin was a lemmy instance.
Kbin is a different software.
Ah, thank you
But kbin is compatible with Lemmy, as it’s also federated via ActivtyPub. Kbin also supports microblogging and can see content in Mastodon.
It also includes microblogging so it’s like a mix of lemmy and mastadon (and federates with both)
From an end user point of view, there’s not much difference other than the UI (and because of differing APIs, different third party apps too). It’s fully interoperable with Lemmy (and Mastodon).
Behind the scenes on the server, though, it’s a completely different piece of software.
Can you subscribe to kbin communities with a user made on a lemmy instance and post, and the other way around? I was under the impression that kbin and lemmy instances don’t really mix that well. But maybe that’s just because the clients we have right now are limited.
You can, yep. You can skidaddle over to kbin.social and give it a go.
The important thing to remember is that all of the stuff that you do with your account (subscribing, posting, commenting etc.) is actually done by the server your account is on. The way you “interact” with users/content on other servers is that once you’ve “done something” on your server, it then let’s other servers know about it (via federation).
So if you’re a Lemmy user and say “I want to subscribe to [email protected]”, your Lemmy server will go away and pull down all the info for that community from kbin.social and start displaying it in your feed. If you create a post on that community, your Lemmy server will send a message to kbin.social containing all the info it needs to create the post.
Lemmy and kbin fully federate together, so all this works just the same as kbin-to-kbin or Lemmy-to-Lemmy. As also mentioned, kbin also has “microblogging” (Twitter-like posting) as well as Reddit-like thread posting, and fully federates with Mastodon in the same way.
That’s not a stupid question.
But it was just talked about in a giant thread the other day.
Do search engines even index this shit?
When I Google stuff, I can’t find anything here.
Think of it as GMail and Yahoo! Mail. It’s still emails at the end of the day but the UI looks different and their servers are definitely different.
This is awesome. The kbin support is gonna go over really well too.
Fantastic!
Very excited for kbin support!
I wonder if the development would be very difficult for the dev, do we know if he’s gonna give some updates blogs-like? That’d be cool, maybe to insñir other Reddit apps devs.
There are official communities at:
And Discord: https://discord.gg/w8HvsN9M
Thank you for the input!
